PLASTICS REGULATIONS 2018 | EVENT PREVIEW
by Eléonore Mullier, Senior Associate at Steptoe and Johnson in Belgium. She will be followed by Alfred Voskian and Jytte Syska, Partners at Syska Voskian Consulting in Denmark, who will discuss EU REACH and CLP (Classifcation, Labelling and Package) regulations and their impact on European plastic compounding operations.
Additive regulation The final session of Day One will see Daniel Friedrich, Scientific Project Manager and Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences – Engi- neering and Architecture in Switzerland, explain the process of self-regulation in the bio fibre-rein- forced plastics industry and the power behind the use of eco-labels. And the first day programme will be brought to a close by Michael Scherzinger, Solution Specialist at Adjuvo KFT in Hungary, who will update attendees on European moves to regulate packaging inks and detail some key national-level legislation.
Circular economy Day Two of Plastics Regulations 2018 will be opened by Joachim Quoden, Managing Director, EXPRA – Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance in Belgium, who will discuss the current status of the Circular Economy Package initiative for packaging and the outcome of the EU Plastics Strategy. The focus then turns to food contact. Dr Grant B Kenion, Scientific Fellow at Henkel Corporation in the US, will explore the US FDA food contact notification system and discuss the case for harmonised acceptance in the EU. This will be followed with an explanation of Chinese food contact materials and articles regulatory compliance from Cathy Yu, Head of Food and Food Contact Regulatory Affairs Department at Hangzhou CIRS in China. Dr Jürgen Towara, Head of Food Contact Compliance EU at Intertek in Germany, will then
discuss food contact approaches in the ASEAN Union, Japan and Korea. And Tjoena Siere, Consultant at AdFoPack in the Netherlands, will complete the food contact regulatory coverage with a discussion of regulation on food contact materials in the Netherlands. The final session of the conference opens with a
brand owner’s perspective on understanding and demonstrating compliance with food contact material legislation by Dr Stamatios Stamenitis, Principal Scientist Scientific and Regulatory Affairs atWrigley in Germany. He will be followed by Siobhan Murphy, Senior Regulatory Scientist at The REACH Centre in the UK, who will detail a way forward for biocides in plastic food contact materials. And the conference will be brought to a close by Dr Sarah Saminadin Peter, Food Contact Expert - Health, Environmental & Regulatory Services (HERS) at Intertek in Germany, who will explore the process of European compliance for materials in contact with drinking water.
Food contact workshop Plastics Regulations 2018 will be preceded by a one-day workshop. Run by the transatlantic food contact and food safety practice team at law firm Steptoe and Johnson, Food Contact Materials 101 EU and US: What You Need to Know is targeted at legal and regulatory compliance officers wanting to acquire a solid understanding of all current aspects of EU and US food contact compliance. The workshop will be a one-stop-shop opportu- nity for participants of Plastics Regulations 2018 to get a comprehensive overview of requirements for EU and US food contact compliance. It will be delivered by Dr Mitch Cheeseman, Managing Director at Steptoe and Johnson in the US, and Gyöngyi David and Dr Anna Gergely, Associate and Director EHS Regulatory respectively at Steptoe & Johnson in Belgium.
About Plastics Regulations 2018
Responding to new and future regulatory developments that will impact on the plastics supply chain
14-15 March 2018 Maritim Hotel, Cologne, Germany
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Scheduled for 14-15 March 2018 at the Maritim Hotel in Cologne, Germany, Plastics Regulations 2018 will provide expert analysis and guidance on a wide range of interna- tional legislative and regulatory issues that impact on polymer producers, compound- ers, processors and end users, including REACH, Food contact regulation, and the potential impacts of Brexit. The event will be preceded by a Food Contact Materials workshop run by interna- tional law firm Steptoe & Johnson. This event, which is optional, will cover all the essentials of food contact plastics regulation in the EU and US markets. To find out more about the conference and/or the pre-conference workshop and to book your place visit the conference website or contact Conference Organiser Jasmine Coles. Email:
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